Hey everyone, thanks for checking out my channel. My name is Brian Lohnes and this will be a place where you'll find videos about all manner of subjects. I am the lead broadcaster for the NHRA drag racing series on Fox sports, I am the editor in Chief of BangShift, the creator and host of the Dork-o-Motive podcast, and a guy you can see popping up on various shows and at various events.
I love the history of machines, racing, and transportation. Many of my videos will surround those topics. You'll be able to check out Dork-O-Motive episodes here, see some wrenching videos of various projects we have going on, and likely hear me drone on about tractors and other stuff if you stick around long enough.
If you are a gearhead that loves history, we're going to be fast friends.
You can play with polemics and twist your trumpaniac logic all you want...if the NHRA didn't allow a car to run a class that it fulfilled the requirement for THAT'S CALLED BEING BANNED...whether initially in the class or not.
Not Watkins Glen, but in the early 70's, my friends and I went to Road America 2 or 3 times a year for the Trans-Am series and Can-Am races. There was a pit, similar to the bog where the exact stuff you talked about happened, but probably to a lesser degree. Cars got burned. One guy took his new 240Z around the perimeter of the bog, hit a deep hole in the ground and ripped off his whole front suspension. He was lucky they didn't burn his car. One of my friends brought a 62 Corvair and intentionally got it stuck in the bottom of the pit. It didn't take long for that car to be burned and rolled over, not necessarily in that order. Oh, and most Corvair cooling fans were magnesium, so they got thrown in our own campfires. We always had tons of fun, nobody got hurt (that we knew of), but after the Trans-Am and Can-Am series were done, so were we. We did get to see the orange McLarens and the Porsche 917s run, it was a different time back then.
This is a great story ! And I'm so glad there was no A.I. Narration. The voiceover here was precise, and to the point ! None of that "I can't stand not to hear the sound of my own voice B.S." ! Thank You, Great Job !
This was one of the best videos on WWII working machines I have found to date. Full of info and photos that say a lot. Thanks for a great video, iy kept my attention thr full time !
My dad was a GM man before the war and a Cadillac man in the 50s,60s, and 70s, but he always bought Ford trucks for his business. Dad was with the Third Armored Division and he said the Ford powered tanks never let them down ever. He was glad his tank had the Ford V8 during the Bulge.
I just toured Indianapolis for the first time on 6/9/24. I have watched the 500 for every single one of my 49 years due to my father's love for all things racing. He has been gone for 6 years now. I wish he could have been there with me to take it all in. He loved the fabricator years of Indy. Now to go in May and see it live...
That’s crazy; I thought you sounded like you, if you know what I mean. Thank you for the fantastic advice; very good to know. I’ll hear you from the track!
Love all your videos man I love that Smoky is who your 100th video is about he is really a great guy to read about. Keep up all the good work you do brother
I'm 64 years old,,,,,lived in San Bernardino as a kid,,,,,in Pomona,,,,, you could see these cars all day long,,,,, not just the strip,,,,, these things were loud and fast,,, barely legal cause of the sound they made
Good greif what a car!.......I am thinking a street legal tribute/replica of this car but tuned with modern EFI would be super fun to see in a 80s nostalgia prostock class or at the local cruise night.
Love your channel, doing reasearch on the post Industrial age and all of the seemingly forgotten Engineers and Manufacturers who were important THEN but only survive today with Share-holder certificates who dont give a #$k besides tomorrow's new profit .... Gotta love War. ✌
Not a Hemi its a 4 valve pentroof double overhead cam. It does not have hemispherical combustion chambers. Why does everyone make this mistake two totally different designs? Shows lack of knowledge and misinformation.
I got a 1 ton work truck in exchange for labor when I was a kid. It was a 59 GMC 1 ton with a 9 foot bed. It had a Pontiac 389 in it and it was an absolute beast! I went on get practical and let that amazing machine slip through my hands. 😖
Brian, your videos are some of the best on Facebook if you are into drag racing. Thanks so much for not only the entertainment of watching them, the open the door to the past and early days of drag racing when it wasn't all about the $$$. Back them I remember sometimes 15 or 20 Pro Stock drivers who failed to make a 16 car show. The early years of Pro Stock were so exciting and filled with ingenuity and talent in building cars and engines.
As a former machinist, in the Aerospace industry when manufacturing here, in the U.S. was still "in" ,pride in workmanship, enginerring and design, were paramount. As a mechanic, I also care about the work product I put out. But, having worked most recently at a Ford Dealership, in the parts depr. I saw way too many engines and transmissions getting replaced due to failure. One of the failure points was in the timing system, due to a lack of a woodruff key on the crankshaft. This is 100 yr old technology, yet it is missing. GM and Chrysler have similar issues. Not to mention valves and lifters dropping at 30k miles. This is old tech. This is why I said what I said. Either, the auto industry is tanking the ICE automobile purposely, or we have a bunch of disinterested UAW workers bulding low quality vehicles.
